The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect. The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). This is wrong because it is not true. When you drive the axe into the tree when you need firewood, you are not cutting down a person; you are cutting down a tree. But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize God made it and it deserves respect because He made is as a tree.
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Heir to your own karma doesn't mean 'You get what you deserve. ' I think it means 'You get what you get. ' Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending on my action means, to me, that it depends on my action of choosing compassion--for myself as well as for everyone else--rather than contention. [p. 61]
You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves.
Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?
Deserve your dream.
In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.
As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.
There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day.
Judge if you want, we are all going to die. I intend to deserve it.
You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.
These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness
For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.
Everyone still deserves to have their say.
You don't deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions.
There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care.
Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
